100th birthday of Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1970 - 40 Pfennig

100th birthday of W. I. Lenin On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Wiadimir lljitsch Lenlin, the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes five multi-color special postage stamps and one multi-colored special postage stamp block. Lenin monument in Eisleben (40 Pfennig value) This monument was created shortly after the death of Lenin in 1924 by the Soviet sculptor M. G. Maniser and erected in the Leningrad suburb Pushkin, former Tsarskoe Selo. When the Hitler fascists raided the USSR, they dragged the statue to Germany and determined it to melt down. In Eisleben, however, Soviet prisoners of war and forced captives, together with German Communists, managed to hide the three-tonne sculpture in a self-sacrificing and dangerous action for all involved. When the Soviet army moved into the city in 1945, the population greeted the liberators with the saved monument of Lenin. In 1948, this statue was donated by the Soviet government to the city of Eisleben. In return, in 1960 a monument of Ernst Thalmann went to Pushkin. Both statues, which were once pictured on DDR stamps in 1960, are a living expression of a chapter of German-Soviet friendship. The development of the Soviet Union, the emergence of the world socialist system, the unprecedented surge of anti-imperialist struggle in the capitalist countries. and the successes of the national liberation movement of the colonial-oppressed peoples have long since proven historically the truth and victoriousness of the pioneering ideas of Leninism. Lenin's doctrine is omnipotent, because it is correct, and an eternally living source of revolutionary thought and action. Not least of all, the twenty-year long successful path of the German Democratic Republic bears witness. The carrying out of two victorious revolutions in a peaceful manner took place in the direction prescribed by Lenin. And if the working people of our republic, under the leadership of the working class and its party, shape the developed social system of socialism today, this means the concrete application of Lenin's insights into the socialist social formation under our conditions. The series of stamps by which the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the GDR honored Lenin on the occasion of his 100th birthday honors in particular his close relations with the German workers' movement and the influence of his work and the honoring of his personality in the first German workers' and peasants' Country.